Hasan demanded a place in the government, which the
Sultan granted at the Vizier's request; but discontented with a
gradual rise, he plunged into the maze of intrigue of an oriental
court, and, failing in a base attempt to supplant his benefactor, he
was
disgraced
and fell.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In
Macedonian
fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[67] A
celebrated
actor.
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Aristophanes |
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I keep my countenance,
I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired
Reiterates some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling
things that other people have desired.
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T.S. Eliot |
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you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Keats |
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When the poor heart has all its joys resigned,
Why does their sad
remembrance
cleave behind?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A
charlatan
of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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She wakes their smiles, she soothes their cares,
On that pure heart so like to theirs,
Her spirit with such life is rife
That in its golden rays we see,
Touched into graceful poesy,
The dull cold
commonplace
of life.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light
exclusively
yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
Last May, a braw wooer cam doun the lang glen,
And sair wi' his love he did deave me;
I said, there was
naething
I hated like men--
The deuce gae wi'm, to believe me, believe me;
The deuce gae wi'm to believe me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For as my flesh out of my father's joy
Came, fraught from him with hunger for like joy,--
As, when roused ages of desire within me
Play with my blood as storms play with the sea,
And all my senses tug one way like sails,
My flesh obeys, and into that perilous dream,
Woman, exults;--so, but much more, my soul,
That had its faculties from far beyond
The
tingling
loam of flesh, obeys a need:
Conquest, and nations to enjoy with war.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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From off the gateway's rusting iron asters,
5The birds take flight to far
sequestered
greens,
?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in
posterity?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Io vidi sopra lei tanta allegrezza
piover, portata ne le menti sante
create a trasvolar per quella altezza,
che quantunque io avea visto davante,
di tanta
ammirazion
non mi sospese,
ne mi mostro di Dio tanto sembiante;
e quello amor che primo li discese,
cantando 'Ave, Maria, gratia plena',
dinanzi a lei le sue ali distese.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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) The sermons and papers thus consigned to King
were taken from him later at the instance
apparently
of Donne's son.
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John Donne |
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org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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We,
wretched
subjects, though to lawful sway,
In this weak queen some favourite still obey:
Ah!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Twould wake sad
thoughts
in me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Item,
Anchovies
and sack after supper.
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Shakespeare |
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A terrible feeling of
solitude
in the midst of a multitude
oppressed him.
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Yeats |
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A proud man was Lars Porsena
Upon the
trysting
day.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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With every note
That grows more loud, the angel grows more dim,
Receding
in proportion to approach,
Until he stand afar,--a shade.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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On this side the Tuscan river
shuts us in; on that the
Rutulian
drives us hard, and thunders in arms
about our walls.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With
blindness
linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with interruption short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Massam, a merchant, but as early as 1610 had retired to live
a country life in
Leicestershire
(see 106).
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Robert Herrick |
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At my sloth and greed there is no one but me to laugh;
My
cheerful
vigour none but myself knows.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including
any word
processing
or hypertext form.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Whan hit was vij yere olde and more,
hys freendys sett hym wnto lore; 46
he was sone Full goode of wytt,
And
wnderstode
the holy wryte;
he loued god in all his thought, 49
And of thys worllde gaffe he nought;
he sawe thys worllde was butt gylle,
for hit showld laste but a whyle;
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neuerthe les whan he was elde,
lone and felde For to wellde,
hys fader puruyde hym a wyffe, 55
Wit whome he soulde led hys lyffe;
A mayden there was fayre and Fre,
Com of ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Labours none
Of men or oxen in the land appear'd,
Nor aught beside saw we, but from the earth 120
Smoke rising;
therefore
of my friends I sent
Before me two, adding an herald third,
To learn what race of men that country fed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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S
[Illustration]
S was Papa's new Stick,
Papa's new thumping Stick,
To thump
extremely
wicked boys,
Because it was so thick.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Leesce qui nel' haoit mie,
L'envoisie, la bien chantans,
Qui des lors qu'el n'ot que sept ans
De s'amor li donna l'otroi;
Deduit la tint parmi le doi 840
A la karole, et ele lui,
Bien s'entr'amoient ambedui:
Car il iert biaus, et ele bele,
Bien
resembloit
rose novele
De sa color.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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{15e} Horses are
frequently
led or ridden into the hall where folk
sit at banquet: so in Chaucer's Squire's tale, in the ballad of
King Estmere, and in the romances.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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& his hHorse proudly neighd; he smelt the battle
Afar off, Rushing back, reddning with rage the [[Eternal]] Mighty Father
Siezd his bright
Sheephook
studded with gems & gold, he Swung it round
His head shrill sounding in the sky, down rushd the Sun with noise
Of war.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It should be added that this is not a
haphazard
anthology of picked-over
poetry.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For that Thou givest my soul some pride,
Not
grudging
sorrow for a mate,
For this my wild and lovely bride
I thank Thee, just, compassionate.
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Tennyson |
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His
shoulder
proudly eminent and sharp
Was with a sinner charg'd; by either haunch
He held him, the foot's sinew griping fast.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We are engaged in a free enquiry,
and you know, that, in this kind of debate, the
established
law allows
every man to speak his mind without reserve.
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Tacitus |
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OCEANUS
Thy word is said to me in act to go:
For lo, my
hippogriff
with waving wings
Fans the smooth course of air, and fain is he
To rest his limbs within his ocean stall.
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Aeschylus |
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The _New Poems_
bear the dedication: "A mon grand ami, Auguste Rodin," indicating the
twofold influence which the French
sculptor
wielded over the poet, that
of a friend and that of an artist.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Fitzdottrel
lxvi
Fitzdottrel lxx
Wittipol lxxi
Justice Eitherside lxxi
Merecraft lxxii
Plutarchus Guilthead lxxiii
The Noble House lxxiv
D.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_ The evidence for this reading
is so
overwhelming
that it is impossible to reject it.
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John Donne |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thus at the latest hour with insults over-sufficient
E'en to my plaints fere Fate
begrudges
ears that would hear me.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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XII
Thus flocked all the folke him round about, 100
The whiles that hoarie king, with all his traine,
Being arrived where that champion stout
After his foes defeasance did remaine,
Him goodly greetes, and faire does entertaine
With
princely
gifts of yvorie and gold, 105
And thousand thankes him yeelds for all his paine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went
shuffling
through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Where is the cry of
thought?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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`And your goodnesse have I founde alwey yit, 995
Of whiche, my dere herte and al my knight,
I thonke it yow, as fer as I have wit,
Al can I nought as muche as it were right;
And I, emforth my
conninge
and my might,
Have and ay shal, how sore that me smerte, 1000
Ben to yow trewe and hool, with a myn herte;
`And dredelees, that shal be founde at preve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Here he shall stride up and down and
flourish
his sword.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"Is it
possible
that I have
written verses that are 'filled with beauty,' and is it possible
that you really think them worthy of being given to the world?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But Nature
whistled
with all her winds,
Did as she pleased and went her way.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But let them look over all the great
and
monstrous
wickednesses, they shall never find those in poor families.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--
At their heads they set their shields of war,
bucklers bright; on the bench were there
over each atheling, easy to see,
the high battle-helmet, the haughty spear,
the
corselet
of rings.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Broken their girths, downwards their saddles slide;
Both those Kings fall,
themselves
aground do find;
Nimbly enough upon their feet they rise;
Most vassal-like they draw their swords outright.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Thou
beauteous
wreath, with melancholy eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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| Source: |
Keats |
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dis, si tu le sais,
A cet
agonisant
que le loup deja flaire
Et que surveille le corbeau,
A ce soldat brise, s'il faut qu'il desespere
D'avoir sa croix et son tombeau;
Ce pauvre agonisant que le loup deja flaire!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Men don't go up into the roofs
of their
bungalows
to die, and they don't fasten up the ceiling-cloth
behind 'em.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Let all depart--alone
Leave the
tsarevich
with me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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May
perpetual
youth
Keep dry their light from tears;
That her fair form may stand and shine,
Make bright our days and light our dreams,
Turning to scorn with lips divine
The falsehood of extremes!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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"And I for truth, -- the two are one;
We
brethren
are," he said.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_
REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,
When I look at the date of your kind letter, my heart reproaches me
severely with
ingratitude
in neglecting so long to answer it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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THIS ETEXT IS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED
TO YOU "AS-IS".
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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This poem of fin'amor, perfect or true love, is one of the more comprehensive statements of the
troubadour
ideal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
at
dignites
ben ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Let him put forth his power, attest his sway,
Howe'er he will--a momentary show,
A little brief
authority
in heaven!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Had they the wing
Like such a bird,
themselves
would be too proud
And build on nothing but a passing cloud!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I keep my countenance,
I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired
Reiterates some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling
things that other people have desired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"The king himself proclaimed her
peerless
beauty
Before the court,
And held it were to win a kiss his duty
To give a fort,
Or, more, to sign away all bright Dorado,
Tho' gold-plate tiled--
Oh!
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Hugo - Poems |
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And now, its
strings
Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes
Over delicious surges sink and rise,
Such a soft floating witchery of sound
As twilight Elfins make, when they at eve
Voyage on gentle gales from Fairy-Land,
Where Melodies round honey-dropping flowers,
Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise,
Nor pause, nor perch,
hovering
on untamed
wing!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Wait a little; we are going to install Plutus presently in the
place he
formerly
occupied behind the Temple of Athene;[811] there he
will watch over our treasures for ever.
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Aristophanes |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Many ages, he said, before his time,
there were ballads in praise of
illustrious
men; and these
ballads it was the fashion for the guests at banquets to sing in
turn while the piper played.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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No, by Apollo, will I not, unless you are going to discuss
the
question
of peace.
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Aristophanes |
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I
wondered
what machine of ages gone
This represented an improvement on.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more
impatient
cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Fulmina, fulmina
Deus
vastator!
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Tennyson |
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Glasses of rose
and crimson and blue, magical glasses, glasses of
Paradise?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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" 40
Thenne CANTERLOUE hee dydd goe out,
To telle the maior straite
To gett all thynges ynne reddyness
For goode Syr
CHARLESES
fate.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In this period the Italian
(perhaps largely Celtic) genius is allied with
Alexandrianism
in revolt
against Rome: and in it Latin poetry may be said to attain formal
perfection.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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l fuelh
Like to him who bends the leaves
And picks the loveliest flower of all
I from the highest branch have seized,
Of them, the one most beautiful,
One God has made, without a stain,
Made her out of His own beauty,
And He
commanded
that humility
Should her great worth grace again.
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Troubador Verse |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Auf deiner
Schwelle
wessen Blut?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Gilgamish and Enkidu
grappled
with each other,
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
The
handwriting
was at first somewhat like the delicate, running
Italian hand of our elder gentlewomen; but as she advanced in
breadth of thought, it grew bolder and more abrupt, until in her
latest years each letter stood distinct and separate from its
fellows.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And in the copies which she sent to friends,
sometimes
one
form, sometimes another, is found to have been used.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Daughter
Pholoe may succeed,
But mother Chloris what she touches mars.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I cannot
remember
now what Neptune taught me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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He has demonstrated that no man could have lived so
long--De Quincey was nearly seventy-five at his death--and worked so
hard, if he had consumed twelve
thousand
drops of laudanum as often as
he said he did.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
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blake-poems |
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In vain
Religion
meets my shrinking eye,
I dare not combat, but I turn and fly:
Conscience in vain upbraids th' unhallow'd fire,
Love grasps her scorpions--stifled they expire!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In
slumbers
of my night-repose, infusing a false morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Step from the car; Alcmena's son, 'tis said,
Was sold
perforce
and bore the yoke of old.
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Aeschylus |
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Farewell
the plain sae rashy, O!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I never saw sad men who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
We prisoners called the sky,
And at every
careless
cloud that passed
In happy freedom by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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]
[Sidenote G: It
consisted
of all dainties in season.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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